Musician Louis Armstrong features on the Guardian's a history of modern music: jazz playlist today. Photograph: Vaclav Chocola/(C) All Out Productions

As part of the Guardian's summer of music, our critics have put together a history of modern music. We have been looking at a different genre every day, starting off with a history of pop, then moving along to rock, hip-hop and R&B, indie, dance, world and folk, and then jazz today.

For each genre our team of Guardian and Observer writers have compiled an ultimate playlist featuring the songs and artists that have made music what it is today. Our playlist today ranges from 'The Entertainer' by Scott Joplin in 1902 up to the more recent 'Confessions to my Unborn Daughter' by Ambrose Akinmusire released earlier this year.

The list covers over 100 years of jazz music and contains songs from some of the most loved artists of the genre such as Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker and Miles Davies.